Workmen's advocate., 1887-01-22

under fifteen are employed in Connecti. cut establishments,
 Monthly payment is most frequent with children. somewhat less so with women, and least frequent with men.
 The average proportion of women em- ployed increases with the size of the factory. In the smaller establishments, less than a quarter of the hands are women; in the larger ones, nearly one third. On the other hand, the number of children reported reaches a maximum in mills employing between one and two hundred hands. and then diminishes. This seems to make it probable that most of the smaller mills employing children made either no returns, or inadequate ones.
 The percentage of women employed does not vary as much as would be ex- pected between different localities. It is lowest in Litchfield County, and highest m lOllanu COunly.
 The percentage of child labor, on the other hand, varies greatly, rising as high as eleven per cent. in Windham County, and falling to less than three per cent. in New Haven County.
 The employment of women reaches by far the largest proportion in the manu- fracture of wearing apparel, where they are nearly twice as numerous as the men; also in the silk mills, where about the same proportion holds good. In other textile mills, especially in the wool manufacture, the men outnumber the women.
 The employment of children reaches the largest proportions in textile indus try, which gives employment to nearly twice as many children as all other fac tory industries put together The pro- portion of children, and in particular of yonag children, is much largest in the cotton mills, where it reaches nearly twelve per cent. of the whole number employed. The general percentage of children in all textile industries is little less than nine
 The greater part of the children en- ployed in the production of textile goods and wearing apparel are engaged in tend ing machinery; in other lines of industry, such employment is the exception. Most establishments either in metal or in mis- cellaneous manufacture, represent chil- dren as engaged in cleaning and packing, in helping adult laborers, or simply in occasional odd jobs about the shop. The result of this difference is, that the direct competition of child labor is hardly felt in many of these lines, and the system is seen at its best instead of at its worst.
 The employment of women in metal establishments is, for the most part, on lines similar to that of children-clean- ing, finishing, asserting, or packing. There are, however, a great many estab- lishments, especially in the brass manu- facture. where the work of tending ma chnery is largely done by women The number employed in the administrative force of all lines of industry is also con- siderable.
 Returns giving the wages of about three thousand women in the city of |
 New Haven, where they are perhaps em- ployed in greater variety of lines than anywhere else in tlie State, show an av- craze weekly wage of trife over six dollars and half. The lowest average wages are fund in the manufacture of wearing apparel. Wages under six dol lars are exceptional.
 Returns concerning the employment of children in four mill towns in the eastern part of the State, show a scale of wages running down from about dollar a day for hands over eighteen years of age, to thirty five and forty cents for the youngest hands-in exceptional cases still lower. The average wages were higher, and the work little steadier. in wooden mills than in cotton mills, for 1 children of the same age.